Not knowing endings: an epilogue

Abstract

As part of thinking about how life materialises in our work, four contributors — Fiona Ross (FR), Patricia Henderson (PH), Kathleen Lorne McDougall (KLM) and Thomas Cousins (TC) — met at a two-day workshop in June 2014. From our recorded discussion, we've crafted an epilogue that explores connections and points of productive divergence in the papers. It traces our engagement with the history of political-economic understandings of social life in southern Africa; questions of history, the archive and politics; the body; and modes of writing. Presented in conversational form, we offer it as an invitation to on-going discussions about the forms and formations of life in southern Africa.